Ok… so I’ve been doing this estate sale/ e-commerce/ eBay
business for a while now and along with A LOT of help from my husband, I’ve gotten
fairly comfortable with items like fine china or crystal. I’ve even developed a
few favorites and I wanted to share a quick story about how I got a set of my
favorite China so far, Royal Albert Old Country Roses.
I’m not alone, from what I’ve heard and been able to read so
far it’s probably the most popular print of china in the world and I have a
complete set of 8 place settings of Royal Albert Old Country Rose up for sale
in my eBay store.
I acquired this set from what has turned out to be the
single most lucrative estate sale my husband and I have attended since we
started doing this in January of this year… I had made the connection with the seller over
a month before at the same estate sale. This time I brought my husband who is a
pretty good picker and together we purchased some fairly nice crystal glasses,
collectible Christmas items and while my husband was working the seller in the
living room for some Lenox items he liked the seller’s husband informed him
that he had a complete set of Royal Albert dishes, and they were new in
the Box! Now, as I said, my husband is pretty good at this, and he didn’t even
blink when the guy mentioned this. He just nonchalantly asked him about the
dishes and said that he would check them out. But he really was not showing any
interest at all even though his heart was racing because he knew we had success
selling those dishes previously.
So the seller’s husband walks out and sure enough, he’s got
two full boxes of Royal Albert Old Country Roses China, Eight place settings, a
total of 42 dishes in all and they are brand new and have never been used or
even opened. It’s not often in this business that you find a pot of gold at the
bottom of the rainbow (more often than not it’s a Koach purse or Rolax watch) but
here was one staring at my hubby and he’s still just as cool as the other side
of the pillow so the seller and her husband won’t have any idea how bad he
wanted them, or how much he was willing to spend to get it…. And then I walk in
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OH MY GOD!!!!! Royal Albert, My FAVORITE!!!
And I actually hopped & clapped like a little schoolgirl
too. Mind you, the Seller, her husband… and my husband are all staring at me at
this point although I will admit they each had different looks, my husband
somewhere between stunned disbelief and hatred while the sellers looked
at me like a scratch-off lottery ticket that had just paid out. The seller,
with a huge smile on her face said a number and my husband just said something
along the lines of … “Yeah”.
All right! so you won’t see me at this year’s Texas Hold’em
finals, but at least you know where to find a stunning set of china. Either for
your own set or the nicest wedding gift anyone will ever get. Check it out in
my store along with a lot of other great collectibles. Here's the link to the china and I hope to see you see soon at my eBay store.
Royal Albert Old Country Roses Set of 42 Dishes
Talk to you Soon!
Cindy
